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United States Patent | 6,186,794 |
Brown ,   et al. | February 13, 2001 |
An interactive adaptive learning system. A collection of core stimuli consisting of at least auditory and visual symbols and information, are stored on a computer. A number of different relationships between the core stimuli are created which can then be presented as discrimination or identification tasks to the user. Different sets of stimuli are then presented succeedingly to the user and the user is requested to respond. The form of response can either be to investigate and analyze the stimuli, or attributes of the stimuli, or answer of the quarry regarding the discrimination or identification task. The system has a built in strategy for progressing the user through learning tasks. The users actions and responses in reaction to the stimuli are all recorded and analyzed. Based not only on the success rate of the user responses, but also on other characteristics of the users reaction to the stimuli, the users learning strategy is classified. This classification is then utilized to either allow the learning strategy to continue as initially set, or to dynamically adjusted to find the presently indicated level of difficulty for the user or to adapt to the users particular learning strategies or needs.
Inventors: | Brown; Carolyn J. (Iowa City, IA); Zimmermann; Jerry N. (Iowa City, IA) |
Assignee: | Breakthrough to Literacy, Inc. (Bothell, WA) |
Appl. No.: | 041541 |
Filed: | April 2, 1993 |
Current U.S. Class: | 434/116; 340/825.19; 434/118; 434/169; 434/307A; 704/271 |
Intern'l Class: | G06K 009/00 |
Field of Search: | 434/118,156,157,167,168,178,185,236,238,758,307,308,322,323,365 364/419.01,419.02,419.03,419.07,419.08,419.1,419.2 395/100,118,152,275,375,500,155,161,600,927,575,425 704/1,2,3,7,258,260,270,271 706/927 345/302,952,825.25 340/825.19,825.22,825.25 |
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